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1. Briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of line balancing (5 points) 2. What is the goal of line balancing? What happens if a line is unbalanced? (5 points) 3. As part of a major plant renovation project, the industrial engineering department has been asked to balance a revised assembly operation to achieve an output of 240 units per eight-hour day. Task times and precedence relationships are as follows: Task Immediate Task time predecessor (minutes) 0.2 0.4 b 0.2 d 0.4 d 1.2 f 1.2 e, f a b a d e g 1 Do each of the following (10 points) a) Draw the precedence diagram. b) Determine the cycle time? c) Determine the minimum number of work stations? d) Assign tasks to work station using this rule: Assign the tasks according to greatest number of following tasks. In case of a tie, use the tie breaker of assigning the task with the longest processing time first